Well the master of the one ups has one upped VMware, making their Enterprise Edition of Virtual Server 2005 FREE! Best of all when run on top of Win2003 Enterprise Edition R2 you get 5 Virtual machines free. You can pretty much guess what platform we'll start seeing windows virtual servers popping up on all […]
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IIS6 has a new feature that allows for logging errors to a seperate file. However, little documentation is immediately available on how to configure this or atleast little know. Anyway, here's a link to a KB article at Microsoft that details what additional properties are available for loggin in the HTTPERR# log files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832975
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Microsoft has an article available regarding Virtual Server 2005 R2 and iSCSI. I've been digging around on the forums and it seems the only way to really get the performance out of this is by having the iSCSI storage on the actual host machine. I haven't played with it, don't know enough about it but I do know iSCSI
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So in the Virtual Server how to on setting up a 2 node cluster there was mention that you should select the SCSI drive emulatored because the IDE emulator was slower than the SCSI one and that this was true even if you were running on IDE disks. Strange, right? Virtual PC Guy recently wrote
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Server Virtualization is becoming a major item these days and is many companies are adopting it. I've heard storys all over the place from development to production, from guys using it to setup test labs of multiple servers using only a handful of boxes to companies replacing 700 physical servers with less than 350. For the
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SQL2005 Express Edition is Microsoft's follow up to MSDE2000. MSDE picked up tons of following and has been in use all over the place. Unfortunately for a web application it really didn't cut it and would be quickly outgrown. SQL2005 EE will replace MSDE and doesn't have the same 20 concurrent connections limitation that MSDE
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Date types are pretty important but often overlooked (especially from a hack of a programmer like me) so to save myself a ton of headaches I've copied a table I found elsewhere on the internet for myself. The table came from: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.phpr/2212141 bigint Integer data from -2^63 through 2^63-1 int Integer data from -2^31 through